horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent
横
=
木
+
黄
:
Hamlet (h) climbed on the beam (横) of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and now he is too afraid to come down again. If the Yellow Emperor (黄) doesn't want to call the fire brigade, for better or worse he'll have to climb the Christmas Tree (木) to pick Hamlet up.
跨
=
⻊
+
夸
:
Karl Koala (ku) found a strange quark (夸) in the ashram's bathroom (a4) and to not step on it with his cowboy boots (⻊) he steps across (跨) the strange quark.